No speed dialing

Yes, I know the lack of speed dialing to be one of the more widely criticised feature ommissions in Windows Phone 7. Nonetheless, allow me to again point out how entirely incomprehensible and annoying this is to me. Speed dialing is t-h-e most efficient way to call somebody from your contacts list. Every other method - except maybe custom favorites lists - requires at least twice the number of screen taps to reach your desired contact. I mean, come on, even Bill Gates himself could code a sufficiently performant speed dialing feature during lunch break. How hard can that be? What makes things even worse in Phone 7 is the absence of any third-party apps retrofitting smart dialing. For Android there exist a variety of smart dialpads while on Windows Marketplace - void.